In case you are not familiar with MIX , it is a conference from Microsoft focusing on the collaboration of design and development. Admittedly, the sessions tend to favor the developer, but there is always excellent design and UX content. There was an...

Justin Angel (who is undoubtedly a Silverlight Rock Star) decided to stir things up a bit on Twitter the other night. I was compelled to echo Ward Bell’s response that value converters can play legitimate role in the UI. Justin asked me to defend...

We need to contract a designer for our current project. I’m looking for one of those mythical beasts that has: some real graphics design skill understands (or at least cares about) usability works with Silverlight There is also a strong preference for...

One little usability bit that I picked up from many of the Web 2.0 apps (in particular 37signals apps), is displaying date and times in a “how long since” format. Take a look at the community page on Silver Arcade. I wanted to display when a user became...

We’ve just started a new Silverlight project and since our the UI guy is not on site with us, I ended up with the task of producing screen mockups. Some interest was expressed in using Balsamiq Mockups , and this seemed like a good time to really take...

Just when you think that you finally have an accurate label to describe something, you discover the true ambiguity of the term. What is UX? UX means User Experience . You might say that it is the ergonomics of an user interface, or possibly the level...